Dusty's Lists II

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Dusty's Lists II

1dustydigger
Edited: Jan 17, 2021, 7:33 am

Morwenna,the heroine of Jo Walton's Among Others among a very eclectic collection of classics etc had a great list of SF books she had read. I extracted the SF/F books,and thought it would be fun to work my way through it in a leisurely fashion. Some classic,mingled withlots of fun 60s and 70s reads make for a fascinating selection
(* =already read)

Morwenna's SF/F bookshelf
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*
Poul Anderson - The Broken Sword
Poul Anderson - Ensign Flandry*
Poul Anderson - Guardians of Time
Poul Anderson - Flandry of Terra*
Piers Anthony - A Spell for Chameleon**
Piers Anthony - Cluster*
Piers Anthony - Chaining the Lady
Isaac Asimov - Foundation trilogy*
Isaac Asimov - The End of Eternity*
Jim Baen - Best of Galaxy #4
John Boyd - The Last Spaceship from Earth
Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Spell Sword
Terry Brooks - The Sword of Shannara*
John Brunner - The Shockwave Rider
John Brunner - Stand on Zanzibar*
John Brunner - The Whole Man
John Brunner - Times Without Number
C J Cherryh - Gate of Ivrel
Arthur C Clarke - Childhood's End*
Arthur C Clarke - Imperial Earth
Hal Clement - Mission of Gravity*
Michael G Coney - Charisma
Michael G Coney - Hello Summer,Goodbye
Susan Cooper - The Dark is Rising*
Susan Cooper - The Grey King*
Susan Cooper - Silver on the Tree*
Samuel R Delany - Babel-17*
Samuel R Delany - Empire Star*
Samuel R Delany - The Einstein Intersection*
Samuel R Delany - Trouble on Triton
Philip K Dick - The Man in the High Castle*
Stephen R Donaldson - Lord Foul's Bane*
Harlan Ellison - Dangerous Visions*
Sylvia Engdahl - Beyond the Tomorrow Mountains
Sylvia Engdahl - Heritage of the Star
Nicholas Fisk - Space Hostage
Alan Garner - Red Shift*
Randall Garrett - Too Many Magicians
Randall Garrett - Lord Darcy omnibus*
Harry Harrison - Make Room,Make Room
Robert A Heinlein - Citizen of the Galaxy*
Robert A Heinlein - Time Enough for Love*
Robert A Heinlein - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress*
Robert A Heinlein - The Number of the Beast
Robert A Heinlein - Starship Troopers*
Robert A Heinlein - Have Spacesuit-Will Travel*
Robert A Heinlein - Glory Road
Robert A Heinlein - Waldo/Magic Inc*
Zenna Henderson - Pilgrimage
Frank Herbert - Dune*
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World*
Ursula K Le Guin - THe Dispossessed*
Ursula K Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness*
Ursula K Le Guin - A Wizard of Earthsea*
Ursula K Le Guin - The Farthest Shore*
Ursula K Le Guin - City of Illusions*
Ursula K Le Guin - The Word for World is Forest*
Ursula Le Guin - The Wind's Twelve Quarters
Ursula K Le Guin - Eye of the Heron *
C S Lewis - Prince Caspian*
C S Lewis - The Last Battle*
C S Lewis - Out of the Silent Planet*
Anne McCaffrey - Dragonflight*
Anne McCaffrey - Dragonsong*
Anne McCaffrey - Dragonsinger*
Anne McCaffrey - The White Dragon*
Anne McCaffrey - Dragonquest*
Walter M Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz*
Ward Moore - Bring the Jubilee
Larry Niven - Ringworld*
Larry Niven - The Mote in God's Eye*
Larry Niven - Flight of the Horse*
Larry Niven - A Gift from Earth
Larry Niven - The World of Ptavvs*
H Beam Piper - Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen
Edgar Allan Poe - The Raven
Christopher Priest - The Inverted World
Christopher Priest - A Dream of Wessex
Keith Roberts - Pavane
Spider Robinson - Callahan's Crosstime Saloon*
Spider Robinson - Telempaths
Robert Silverberg - Dying Inside*
Robert Silverberg - The World Inside
Robert Silverberg - Up the Line
Robert Silverberg - Born with the Dead
Robert Silverberg - Revolt on Alpha C
Robert Silverberg - Stepsons of Terra
Clifford D Simak - City*
Mary Stewart - The Crystal Cave*
Theodore Sturgeon - A Touch of Strange
James Tiptree - Warm Worlds
James Tiptree - The Girl Who Was Plugged In
J R R Tolkien - The Hobbit*
J R R Tolkien - Lord of the Rings*
J R R Tolkien - Adventures of Tom Bombadil
J R R Tolkien - The Silmarillion
Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle*
Kurt Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan*
Kurt Vonnegut - Welcome to the Monkey House
John Wyndham - The Chrysalids*
Roger Zelazny - Nine Princes in Amber*
Roger Zelazny - Creatures of Light and Darkness*
Roger Zelazny - The Guns of Avalon*
Roger Zelazny - Sign of the Unicorn*
Roger Zelazny - The Dream Master*
Roger Zelazny - Roadmarks*
Roger Zelazny - Isle of the Dead *
Roger Zelazny - This Immortal*
Roger Zelazny - Doorways in the Sand*

read so far - 68/110

I have always enjoyed Jo Walton's great reviews on Tor,and my tastes usually chime well with hers,so this looks an intriguing list.

2dustydigger
Jun 26, 2016, 2:41 pm

How can I add this list to the personal journals page?

3SylviaC
Jun 26, 2016, 5:59 pm

>2 dustydigger: I'm looking after that page at present. I'll add it.

You're very ambitious. I can remember reading 22 of those, and there were probably a few more that weren't memorable.

4dustydigger
Edited: Jun 27, 2016, 4:36 am

Thanks Sylvia! :0).
Not so much ambitious as just having a soft spot for old pulpy reads! lol.I'm in no hurry to finish the list,indeed I'm unlikely to as I cant afford buying books and certainly wouldnt want to spend money of some of them,but its a rather fun list,wide ranging and just appeals to my listoholic nature.I see at least 20 books there that are already pencilled in on my TBR. I had never read Silverberg previously,as my library system doesnt possess even one of his books,but Open Library has quite a wide selection of his works,so that will be one ignorance gap that I should remedy. Larry Niven is another,I've only read Ringworld,but I am just about to start some of his stuff,including The Integral Trees and Footfall, and The World of Ptavvsso the ignorance level will gradually decrease there too! :0)
I have never read Spider Robunson either,they look good fun.

5reading_fox
Jun 27, 2016, 6:06 am

That's a weird list, the start of some series, but all of others, some pulps and some classics, some very varied writing styles! I've read a lot of those authors and quite a few of the titles. Be interested to see what you make of them.

6SylviaC
Jun 27, 2016, 8:43 am

Spider Robinson's early Callahan's books were favourites of mine. They really are a lot of fun.

7sandstone78
Jun 27, 2016, 3:21 pm

Possible of interest, I remember seeing that someone had set up a LT account for Morwenna, cataloguing the books mentioned in Among Others- it looks like it's @moriphelps.